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The information and Deposition of Jabez Cobb Master of Brigantine taken on Oath the 26th of June 1775 [at Halifax].
This Information saith that on Sunday 11th Inst June he was in Mechias Harbour on shore, and there did see about thirty Men in Arms and many more went to the Meeting House there to take up Ichabod Jones and Captain [James] Moore of the King's Armed Schooner named Margaret, also Mr Stilinsfleet of said Schooner, who being alarmed that they were pursued by Armed Men, jumped out of the Window and escaped; Captn Moore and Mr Stillinsfleet went Onboard their Vessel and Mr. Jones went into the Woods and escaped, on which several People seized a Sloop belonging to said Jones and strip'd the Vessel of her Sails and Rigging and took them away ー the Arm'd People then went on a piece of Marsh ground near the said Armed Schooner and demanded of Captain Moore to deliver up the Vessel, Capt Moore replied he would defend his Vessel as long as he lived and would fire on the Town and beat it down unless they desisted and delivered up Jones's Vessel ー that about six O'clock the same Evening this informant did see three Boats full of Armed Men come down the River and boarded Jones's other Sloop that lay at Anchor at about four Miles distance from where he then was, they then brought this Vessel up the River about One Mile and run her onshore, ー that about eight O'Clock the same Evening the King's Schooner was under way coming down the River, when about One hundred Armed Men went to attack her, and about haIf an hour after the Schooner being at Anchor near the Shore, said Armed Men ordered the Schooner to strike to the Sons of Liberty or else they would destroy them all, and immediately fired into the Schooner, on which the People returned the fire with Swivel Guns and small Arms which lasted about 2½ hours on both Sides, and then the Schooner cut her Cable and went down the River ー And the next Morning the Armed People took two Vessels and pursued the King's Schooner, boarded her, and killed Captain Moore and two other Men, also wounded others belonging to her, and further saith not.
Halifax SS Sworn before Us Cha. Morris, Assist Judge of Supreme Court Thomas Bridge Jc Pe
